Saturday, June 2, 2007

Black Widow Spiderlings

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I found Susannah in my garage several weeks ago, and I have been keeping her in a small cage while I figure out how to take pictures of her safely (for both her sake and mine).


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Apparently I did a very good job of making her feel at home because she made an egg sac within about 1 week of her coming into our care. Spiders have the ability to save semen in their abdomen and wait until there are favorable environmental conditions before laying eggs. Susannah made two egg sacs in about three weeks (between 200 & 800 eggs).


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The spiderlings seen here are the result of opening the first egg sac. I put Suzannah and her eggs into the refrigerator for about an hour so that she would go to sleep and I could remove the eggs from the cage. The first egg sac had what I would estimate to be about 150 spiderlings inside it. I saved about 1/4 of them to take pictures of.



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I still have the mother, as well as 3 spiderlings that I am hoping will survive to adulthood. If I can manage to get some more photos of these spectacular creatures I will be sure to post them.


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I in no way suggest that you try to take pictures of venomous creatures.

49 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great job! Many small spiders :)

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You have some amazing and brilliant imagery from our great state. I look forward to going thru all your archived images.

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Anonymous said...

My skin is crawling. I don't like spiders, but these photos are remarkable! You've captured beautiful wonders of nature. Keep up the good work.

hans blix said...

Creepy. The white background is very cool.

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Pat said...

great pix. I'll have to check out the rest of your blog when i get a chance.

Unknown said...

Great shots! These spiders amaze me. We found one in Arkansas last month that I managed to get some shots of. Amazing! I was curious enough to keep her, dang. :(

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um, you still alive? I wanna see moar photos please!
Especially of the creepy crawlies! THANKS!

Photo-Africa said...

Great images!

Just stumbled upon your Blog - love it! Will browse through it all later this weekend!

Visited Arizona quite a few years ago but would love to come back and photograph more of it!

Will be back!

Lydia said...

amazing pictures! i wonder what camera and macro lenses did you use to take so clear shots. Very interesting.

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